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I'm all for orthodoxy and such, staying true to a vision and design, and so forth. So (not having read the white paper) I have sympathy for Tim Berner-Lee's opposition to the addition of more TLDs. I don't agree so much with the economic argument that was picked up in this article from the Sydney Morning Herald: Web creator opposes more TLDs The first graf:
The inventor of the web, Tim Berners-Lee, has argued strongly against the creation of more top-level domains, saying they tend to partition the web into bits and undercut its universality.The Internet and World Wide Web are not even close to the same thing they were when they were "invented." The genie was loosed and has changed to accomodate other purposes, needs, and desires. That's what evolution is all about.
Frankly, what's needed is probably more rigor to the process by which TLDs are provisioned and used. That, too, will evolve as our understanding of the changing system catches up with the state of the art, such as it is. Read the white paper; I'm going to.
Posted by Grayson at May 21, 2004 09:46 AM